of Dhū al-Qaʿdah, the khuṭbah (Friday sermon) being pronounced in his name. He then turned back, upheld and granted victory by Allah. Good-news riders fanned out across the provinces, and the believers rejoiced that day at the help of Allah.

When news of the defeat reached Abaqa, he came in person with his army, halted on the field itself and looked upon the slain Mongols scattered there. The sight infuriated and astounded him, and he vented his rage on al-Barwānāh for having failed to acquaint him with the true situation; Abaqa had imagined that al-Malik al-Ẓāhir posed nothing like so great a danger. His anger then flared against the people of Caesarea (1) and the surrounding districts: he slew nearly two hundred thousand of them—some say as many as five hundred thousand from Caesarea and Erzurum (2). Among those put to death was the jurist Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥabīb. To Allah we belong and to Him we return.

Among the notable figures who died in this year were:

• Shaykh Abū al-Faḍl ʿĪsā, son of Shaykh ʿUbayd (3) ibn ʿAbd al-Khāliq of Damascus; he was buried near Shaykh Arslān. Shaykh ʿIlm al-Dīn relates that he used to say he had been born in 564 AH.

• The eunuch Yaman the Abyssinian (4), shaykh of the custodians (5) of the Noble Prophetic Sanctuary—upon its inhabitant be the finest blessings and peace. He was devout, intelligent, just, and truthful of speech, and he died in the early seventies—may Allah have mercy on him.

• The traditionist Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad (6) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr al-Mawṣilī, later of Damascus, the Sufi. He heard a vast amount of ḥadīth and copied the great books in a fine, clear hand. He lived past seventy and was buried at Bāb al-Farādis.

• The poet Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-Makārim Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Masʿūd ibn Barakah ibn Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shaybānī al-Tallaʿfarī (8), author of a dīwān of poetry.